LSU track and field’s Jaiden Reid stole the show at the NCAA Track and Field Championships, raking in several medals and setting a new NCAA record in the 200-meter event. The history-setting mark was part of a very strong weekend for LSU. Both the men’s and women’s teams finished within the top 10 in the team standings.

The first Tiger to claim a medal in Eugene, Oregon, was Jack Larriviere. The junior from New Orleans claimed the bronze medal in Javelin on Wednesday, the first day of competition.

Larriviere posted a 77.91-meter throw in his final attempt of the competition, his highest mark of the night to move him into the podium places. The result is the cap to an incredible comeback for Larriviere: His 2026 outdoor season is the first time he has competed in two years after a host of injuries.

The special start to the week continued on Friday. Both of LSU’s relay teams closed out their seasons with silver medals; the 4×100 team a beneficiary of a dropped relay by then-leading Auburn and the 4×400 team suffering heartbreak after being tracked down out of the lead by Georgia.

Reid, having taken part in the 4×100 already, logged his second medal of the afternoon by taking home silver in the 100-meter final. Reid posted a 9.82-second time to be second fastest in the race.

Then, he pulled through in his third and final event of the evening to claim LSU’s lone gold of the week and marked his stake in history. In the 200-meter final, Reid exploded to set a 19.63 without wind assistance. Along with crowning him national champion, the time was good enough to take down Walter Dix’s NCAA record time of 19.69 in the event, which was set in 2007.

Thanks in large part to Reid’s heroics, the LSU men finished fourth in the team-wide standings at the championships with 42 points. Podium places belonged to Arkansas, Georgia and Tennessee with 56, 49 and 46 points respectively.

The women’s squad had its share of success a day later. It finished 10th as a team on Saturday with 24 points, headlined by a trio of medals for Shawnti Jackson.

The first of three medals for LSU on the day came from the 4×100 team. Athaleyha Hinckson, Tima Godbless, Aniyah Bigam and Jackson came together to post a 41.74 to claim silver in a much less exciting event than their male teammates had a day before.

Jackson would continue to ride the momentum off of the relay medal to claim a pair of individual medals.

First, she finished third to earn bronze in the 100-meter final. She capped a strong week in the event and posted an 11.01 after getting off the blocks strong and found an extra gear in the closing meters to secure the final step on the podium.

Then, she placed second in the 200-meter final. She once again finished strong to ward off the field in the final 100 meters to take home silver and set a personal-best 22.12 mark behind a staggering NCAA-record mark from Georgia freshman Adaejah Hodge.

The 10th and fourth place team finishes are a high note for the Tigers to finish on in 2026. Most importantly, those marks display improvement for both of head coach Dennis Shaver’s squads. which finished in 13th and 28th in Eugene a year ago.